What a week...

And not necessarily in a good way. The great potty training adventure officially began, and also ended nearly as quickly. Lauren's obviously old enough to do it at 2.5 years old, but she just isn't interested at all. No really, she ran away from us when we put on the big girl undies. After two days of screaming and fits when she had to sit on the potty, and lots of messes for Chris to clean up, we decided to give up for now and try again in another month or so. Everything I've read and everyone I've talked to says you can't do it unless they want to, and she DEFINITELY doesn't want to. We were all really happy when it was time for her to go to school this morning...Lauren included.

In happier news, we eliminated Evan's 11:30pm feeding last night, and he still slept till his normal time! Woo hoo! Chris is ecstatic because now he doesn't have to stay up late to feed him, and I'm happy because we're moving a little closer toward total bottle-feeding. Breastfeeding is great for lots of reasons, but it's so hard to keep it up after I go back to work. I'm also going to Dallas for a weekend at the end of June, and I don't want to pump while I'm there, so we need to start getting him off the boob.

The little man has also discovered how to work his hands, so now he's grabbing toys and fingers and necklaces and pretty much anything that comes in range of his grasp. The boy's also strong...he can support his weight on his legs with hardly any help from us. I have a feeling he's going to be an early walker.


Tavis Smiley stopped by Nationwide yesterday. Nationwide sponsors the On Your Side Tour with Tavis to promote financial literacy and wealth planning. He was a great speaker, and I got a free copy of his new book, Accountable. The concept behind the book is great: our elected leaders (especially Obama), make lots of promises on the campaign trail, and it's our duty as citizens to help make them great leaders by holding them accountable for the promises they make. The book has a chapter for each of 10 major issues, and at the end of each one there's a checklist for you to keep track of what the president, congress, state government, local government, and you are doing to further progress in that space. Gotta add this one to my stack of books...

Have a safe and happy holiday weekend!